Black River (1993)

Directed by

Kevin Lucas

Genre

action film

Country

Australia

Runtime

55 min

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Aboriginal woman reckons with grief and anger after a loved one dies while in police custody. The film shows how this death affects her family and community.

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What happens

Black River is a 1993 Australian film directed and produced by Kevin Lucas and starring Aboriginal mezzo-soprano Maroochy Barambah. It is a film adaptation of an eponymous opera (1989) by Andrew Schultz and Julianne Schultz that tells the story of an Aboriginal death in custody and its consequences. The film was nominated for the 1993 Australian Film Institute Award for Award Best Screenplay and won the 1994 Montréal International Festival of Films on Art Jury Prize for Adapted Screenplay of the Year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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